Plaster cast of Djedhor statue base


Accession Number
W302
Current Location
In storage
Object Types
Fakes and replicas, Replicas | Sculpture, Statue
Periods
Macedonian Period to Modern
Twentieth century CE/AD
1930s
Materials
Plaster | Wood
Provenance
Egypt, Cairo
Measurements
Height: 370mm | Width: 570mm | Depth: 932mm
Number of Elements
1
Culture
Egyptian

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Description

Plaster cast of the base of the statue of Djedhor-the-Saviour, a priest in charge of Horus the Falcon at Athribis. The original is in the Cairo Museum (JE 46341). This copy was made at the Cairo Museum in 1933. The statue belonging to this plaster cast base is in the Petrie Museum in London. A second statue for Djedhor is in the Chicago Oriental Museum (OI 10589). Djedhor was deified whilst alive and may have been the first priest to use bitumen.

Bibliography

Jelínkova-Reymond, E. 1956. Les inscriptions de la statue guérisseuse de Djed-ḥer-le-Sauveur. Bibliothèque d'étude 23. Le Caire: Institut français d'Archéologie orientale. Sherman, Elizabeth J. 1981. Djedhor the Saviour statue base OI 10589. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 67, 82–102.

3D Model

Wellcome Number
A129212; R1935/77
Other Identity
W1010 (number deleted)
Previous Owner
Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
Acquisition
Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)

Language
Egyptian
Script
Hieroglyphic
Personal Name
Djedhor (ḏd-ḥr)
Last modified: 02 Dec 2022
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